French Fiction in the Mitterrand Years: Memory, Narrative, Desire

by Elizabeth Fallaize and Colin Davis

Book Overview

In the 1980s and 1990s French Fiction emerged from the towering shadow of the formalist literary debates of the fifties and sixties and reclaimed the ground of history, or narrative, of the individual self which has been the thrust of artistic endeavour for much of European history. The Author returned from the dead to entertain and tell stories, as well as to negotiate a path through traumatic experiences such as the legacy of France's colonial and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198159552
• ISBN13: 9780198159551
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"